Modulation Mechanism of TeV, GeV, and X-ray Emission in LS5039

Abstract

The emission mechanism of the gamma-ray binary LS5039 in energy bands of TeV, GeV, and X-ray is investigated. Observed light curves in LS5039 show that TeV and GeV fluxes anticorrelate and TeV and X-ray fluxes correlate. However, such correlated variations have not been explained yet reasonably at this stage. Assuming that relativistic electrons are injected constantly at the location of the compact object as a point source, and that they lose energy only by the inverse Compton (IC) process, we calculate gamma-ray spectra and light curves by the Monte Carlo method, including the full electromagnetic cascade process. Moreover, we calculated X-ray spectra and light curves by using the resultant electron distribution. As a result, we are able to reproduce qualitatively spectra and light curves observed by HESS, Fermi, and Suzaku for the inclination angle i = 30 dig and the index of injected electron distribution p = 2.5. We conclude that TeV-GeV anticorrelation is due to anisotropic IC scattering and anisotropic gamma-gamma absorption, and that TeV-X correlation is due to the dependence of IC cooling time on orbital phases. In addition, the constraint on the inclination angle implies that the compact object in LS5039 is a black hole.

27 pages, 7 figures, published in The Astrophysical Journal

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